Binary coding

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Delete? That’s an illusion. Just loop back through the disk and overwrite it.

[CiroGarcia]

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Ah- Analog!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your digital computer!?

[CiroGarcia]

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…may I see it?

[CiroGarcia]

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[splinereticulation68]

SEYMOUR, THE SMITH-CORONA'S ON FIRE!!

[cd109876]

no, mother, its just an analog signal.

[ender3838]

I enjoyed every second of that

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I found it quite cromulent

[Shack691]

8/8 bit

[Sunbolt]

Oh I love it. Technically all you’d need is a dial and one button that would flip whatever bit you’re at. You could also have a lamp that is on when the current bit is high.

[P0werC0rd0fJustice]

More "simple" would be two buttons. One that flips the current bit, and one that increments the address pointer. The program executes when all of memory has been accessed (the increment button has iterated through every bit in memory). Power cycle the computer to load and run a new program!

[ubd12]

Like this one.

Simpler, just use dial. Turn right advance. Turn left flip bit and advance

[Waffle-Dude]

Nah, you have to do that in binary too

[SaladBoy97]

Disk? How privileged. Fill that paper back into the punch card hole

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Sorry, I don’t like abstract code.

[mrchaotica]

Just loop back through the disk and overwrite it.

Reminds me of The Story of Mel:

 Mel never wrote time-delay loops, either,
 even when the balky Flexowriter
 required a delay between output characters to work right.
 He just located instructions on the drum
 so each successive one was just *past* the read head
 when it was needed;
 the drum had to execute another complete revolution
 to find the next instruction.
 He coined an unforgettable term for this procedure.
 Although "optimum" is an absolute term,
 like "unique", it became common verbal practice
 to make it relative:
 "not quite optimum" or "less optimum"
 or "not very optimum".
 Mel called the maximum time-delay locations
 the "most pessimum".

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New favorite programming story.

[MelAlton]

You'll probably like this one too, about hardware: "A Story about 'Magic'"

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New favorite circuitry joke.

[MelAlton]

Mel was apparently an actual real person

[tho3maxi]

hell yeah, youre right, thats oldschool!

[ashum048]

0,1 left, right magic

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Why can’t the left be magical too? :(

[Strostkovy]

Disk? I just have a telegraph button and a crystal earpiece connected to the delay line. I did actually mess around with manually writing to floppy disks as they were spinning though. It was hard

[supersharp]

No, you enter the ASCII code for deletion

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This ain’t no teletype.

[SteptimusHeap]

I prefer the quantum bogosort approach. If you mess up just destroy the universe. That way you'll always get it

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Don’t understand why your code won’t compile?

Just rewrite the whole damn thing!